Miyaji, Gohyakukoku, Tateyama-machi: Burdigalian, Japan
collected by S. Fujii

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Cephalopoda - Nautilida - Aturiidae
Aturia minoensis Kobayashi 1954
see common names

Geography
Country:Japan
Coordinates: 36.6° North, 137.2° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:36.5° North, 134.4° East (Wright 2013)
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Geographic resolution:outcrop
Time
Period: Neogene Epoch: Miocene
Stage: Burdigalian 10 m.y. bin: Cenozoic 5
Key time interval: Burdigalian
Age range of interval: 20.45 - 15.98 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Tochizu
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Stratigraphy comments: Tochizu sandstone, correlative of the Kurosedani Formation. Early Miocene planktonic zone N8, diatom zone NPD 3A according to Ozawa 2016.
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: lithified sandstone
Environment:marine indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Collectors:S. Fujii
Metadata
Database number:179850
Authorizer:M. Clapham Enterer:M. Clapham
Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2016-07-02 20:39:42 Last modified:2025-02-22 15:12:02
Access level:the public Released:2016-07-02 20:39:42
Creative Commons license:CC0
Reference information

Primary reference:

59662. T. Kobayashi. 1960. Some Miocene nautiloids from Shimane and Toyama prefectures, west Japan. Science Reports, Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan, 2nd Series (Geology), Special Volume 4:117-124 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]